A selection of dinosaurs, exhibited by the Graves Museum at the recent symposium (April 7 - 9,
2000) in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida USA are illustrated with photographs on these pages. Emphasis
is on Bambiraptor feinbergi but Utahraptor ostrommaysi, Othnielia rex, two
tyrannosaurid skulls, two other tyrannosaurid "works in progress", Pterodactylus, and
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis may be viewed here. Other highly interesting specimens
await official publication before they may be exhibited here.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
... All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.Song of Myself Walt Whitman

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Stainless steel sculpture.
Bambiraptor feinbergi
Juvenile

A greater than 90 percent complete skeleton was discovered in 1993 near Bynum, Montana, by a
teenager, Wes Linster, within the Two Medicine Formation. The reconstruction was done by David A.
Burnham, University of Kansas. The specimen is a possible male about 75 percent the size of an
adult and well preserved, partially articulated, with minimal loss of original shape and
articular surfaces which permitted a good reconstruction. The anatomy: U-shaped furcula,
semilunate carpal, among others, suggests close accord with avian characters. Elongate
prezygapophyses in the tail extend along several caudal vertebrae contributing to tail stiffening
and counter-balancing the body. An extensible second pedal ungual (toe) is present ("killer
claw"). A T-shaped lacrimal bone extends onto the top of the skull. The scapula is strap-like.
There is an expansion of the distal pubis. These are all consistent with Bambiraptor feinbergi
being a dromaeosaurid theropod such as Deinonychus, Velociraptor and
Saurornitholestes.

Martin Feinberg of Hollywood, FL underwrote
the costs of restoration in the name of his parents: Michael and Ann Feinberg. The specimen will
reside in The Graves Museum of Archeology and Natural History (Florida Institute of Paleontology).

Adult Specimen of B. feinbergi
Almost 40 other bones were discovered, approximately 25 percent larger than the holotype, from
at least two individuals. A partial reconstruction is illustrated. (Holotypes FIP 002-036)

Utahraptor: A cast of a sustantial find of the
Cretaceous
raptor restored to near completeness. The specific name honors Dr. John Ostrom professor
emeritus at Yale's Peabody Museum and Chris Mays of Dinamation International.
Othnielia: Three casts of a Jurrasic Ornithischian.
Two
and a half
feet high and about five and one half feet long Othnielia may have been an herbivore or
possibly an insectivore. It may be related to Drinker from Wyoming and Yanbusaurus
from China. As a hypsilophodontid, it may share characters with the ancestor of Igaunodon
. The genomic appelation honors Othniel Charles Marsh (1831 - 1899) of Yale Univeristy.

Stan is the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skull
found.
The find consisted of 47 bones (two missing) and 35 loose teeth.AMNH 5027 A Tyrannosaurus rex skull
that was the premier specimen
until Stan showed up. It was discovered by Barnum Brown and named by Henry Fairfield Osborn.GUS, a Gorgosaurus that is still being
restored.
Tinker a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex
that is still being restored.

Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis is an
ornithischian found by Michael Triebold in South Dakota.
Pterodactylus, a pterosaur, not a dinosaur, but
related to dinosaurs, is from the Bavarian, Solnhofen, Germany, fine-grained lithogrphic
sandstone from the end of the Jurrasic.

Ice behemoth an un-named theropod at the
Bird - Dinosaur Symposium Reception. The absolutely fierce looking specimen just melted
away once exposed to the
elements, to a jungle drums' beat.